Friday 17 June 1988

It was Friday, under the sign of Gemini. The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Kyle Heckathorn and Ruben Sole.
In that special week of June people in US were listening to Together Forever (Remix) by Rick Astley.
In UK With A Little Help From My Friends / She's Leaving Home by Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg With Cara Tivey was in the top 5 hits.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, directed by Robert Zemeckis, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1988
while Zoya by Danielle Steel was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching TV Pirata.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Fire-Brigade The Battle for Kiev - 1943 or Haunted Castle.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated.

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review)“A page-turner .